Chapter 8 Tricking time

Idun walked to Elsa's room and rested a box on the bed; she looked up and saw Elsa on the bench over by the window with her knees to her chest. Elsa looked up as she heard the door opened and the sound of feet shuffling across the floor.

"Hi Mama, what brings you here." Elsa said as she turned her head and looked out the window.

"Nothing, I just wanted to ask something."

"Well ask away."

"Why didn't…why didn't you just tell me the truth about it." Idun sat down on the bench.

"About what?...Oh. I thought if I told you, you might think I have problems." Elsa sighed, "So I didn't really wanted to tell you."

"Elsa, I wouldn't think that no matter what happens. Tell me, why didn't you come for breakfast?" Idun asked.

"I…uh…had work to do?" Idun gave her a questioning look as Elsa started to play with her bracelet, "That's not what I meant, I mean I just didn't want to come to breakfast."

"Oh, alright then. Do you want to do anything?"

Elsa shook her head, "I'm fine, I have Ruby to keep me company."

"Okay, I'm going to see what your sister is up to." Idun got up and to the door. "And Elsa."

"Hmm?"

"I left something for you on the bed." Idun walked out.

Elsa turned her gaze to the box on the bed. "I'll open it later."

Idun walked through the halls when she came to a stop by Anna's room, hearing Anna's voice on the other side of the door.

"Where is it!" Anna yelled as she searched through her old toy chest.

"Where's what?" Idun asked as she walked in, catching one of Anna's old teddy bear and resting it on the dressing table.

"Hi Mama, I can't find my snow globe."

"Anna, it's over by your bed."

"Not that one, the one Elsa made for me. She'll freak out if she hears I lost it." Idun looked around Anna's room.

"I know why you can't find it."

"Why?"

"Because your room's in a mess. If you clean it up, you'll find it."

"But that's a lot of work." Anna whined.

"Well if you start now, you'll finish by after lunch."

"But I'll lose half the day." Anna pouted.

"Were you gonna do something important today?"

"No but…" Anna couldn't finish because she had nothing to add.

"I thought so. Well see you after lunch." Idun walked out the door.

Anna looked around, "I am not cleaning this, who is the neatest person I know? Elsa!" Anna rushed through the halls to Elsa's room.

Elsa heard the sound of the door opening and saw Anna walking in with a smile on her face.

"Yes Anna?"

"I just wanted to know if you wanted to do something?" Anna clasped her hands behind her back and began rocking on her feet.

"Sure, I'm bored. What do you have in mind?"

"How about a race?"

"I'm listening." Elsa smiled.

"Cleaning our room."

"Anna my room is already clean, yours? I don't even want to know." Elsa shook her head.

"Here's the gist of it, you'll clean my room and I'll clean whatever room you want me to…"

"Anna I'm not doing that."

"The prize is all my chocolate plus yours. So if I win, I get your chocolate and if you win, you get mines."

"Deal but how are we going to tell each other were done without leaving the room?" Elsa asked.

"No worries, you could signal me and I'll signal you with Snowflake. Let's start now."

"Alright." They walked out of Elsa's room and headed for Anna's, "I want you to clean Mama and Papa's room."

"Deal, one-two-three…GO!" Elsa and Anna ran their separate ways through the halls dodging servants and Anna tried with all her might not to bump into Idun as she ran through the halls. Anna quietly peeked her head through the space the door left when it was open, hoping no one was there. The one main person Anna thought wouldn't've been there was here. Idun was on the bed reading a book and Sunshine was on the floor at the end of the bed. Sunshine looked up as she stopped playing with her chew toy and started barking with joy as soon as she saw Anna.

"No, bad girl. Stop it." Anna whispered-scolded but Sunshine didn't listen. Anna pulled her head back out when she saw Idun closed the book and looked at Sunshine oddly. "Okay, so that room is off limits."

"Anna?" Anna froze when she heard Idun voice.

"Y-yes?" Anna said timidly.

"Why are you here, are you done?"

"No, I came to tell you, I'm halfway there to finishing." Anna lied, she put along a fake smile to go with it.

"Okay then." Idun walked back in the bedroom.

Anna ran away from her parents room until she reached her room, she took a peek inside and saw Elsa packing away all of her old toys.

'She isn't halfway done which means, I still have time and by time, I mean two hours to go.' Anna skipped away from her room and slid down the banister and continued skipping until she reached the main doors of the castle. Anna smiled as she opened the door but the day had other plans, as soon as Anna open the doors, she was met with rain.

"You have got to be kidding me, is this going to stop?" Anna said.

"Nuh uh." Agdar walked up behind her.

"I was so going in town." Anna huffed, 'To get away from Mama.'

"Well it isn't showing any signs of stopping."

"I guess I'll find something to do." Anna sighed and walked back to the staircase.

"How about Elsa?"

"She's busy."

"I thought she had no work to do today?"

"Yeah but an urgent meeting came up." Anna lied, "I'll go keep Ruby company."

"Aren't you missing someone?"

"No, Sunshine with Mama, I'm going to play with Ruby. Am I missing…Snowflake! Where is she?"

"Snowflake's in the throne room, I was just playing with her. Any more pets, you'll forget the ones you had before. You haven't been spending time with her since Ruby came along."

"I know since Elsa's busy and all I might as well help her get used to her new home." Agdar nodded and watched Anna ran up the stairs.

Anna walked past her room and turned the corner, seeing Idun walking down it. 'Oh no, she's coming to check on me.' Anna dashed back to her room startling Elsa.

"Well that's done and her bed is fixed, now the wardrobe." Elsa opened the wardrobe and a whole set of dresses fell out on top of her. "Oh boy…" Elsa jumped out of the pile when she heard the door slammed open. "Anna!"

"S-sorry Elsa, how about we take a break."

"You finished already?"

"No but I am parched, could you get us something to drink?"

"Fine, no funny business while I'm gone." Elsa left and Anna shoved all of her dresses back in the cupboard as soon as Idun opened the door.

"Hi Mama." Anna smiled.

Idun smiled back at her, "Well I see you're almost finish. Maybe I should reward you chocolate after you're done." Anna nodded and Idun left. Anna saw Elsa opened the door and turned around to rest the drinks on her nightstand. Anna took that opportunity to open the doors to the wardrobe.

"Anna?"

"Yeah."

"Why did I see Mama walking out of this room just now?"

"Uh…she came to ask me…how is the race going and who's winning and other race stuff."

"Oh, so we should get back to the game." Elsa said as she finished her glass of lemonade.

"Sure." Anna walked out of the room grabbing the empty glasses along the way. Elsa watched her oddly before going back to the dresses.

Anna carried the empty glasses in the kitchen, came back upstairs and entered Elsa's room. She flopped down on the bed face first and to think she was going to take a nap. She felt someone jump on her back and started licking her ears.

"Ruby. Hi girl." Ruby jumped off of Anna so that she could scratch behind Ruby's ears. "I'm bored. Want to go see Sunshine and Snowflake?" Ruby ears perked up and she started wagging her tail in joy. "I'll take that as a yes." Anna walked through the halls and stopped by her parents room, no one was there only Sunshine who was fast asleep on the bed.

Anna walked over to the bed and tried to lift Sunshine up but almost got bitten by her. When Sunshine realized who it was, she put her ears down and whimpered. Anna patted her head and lifted her up.

"I'm not mad, I have to remember not to scare you when you're sleeping." Anna put her down on the floor when she saw Elsa's signature snowflake floating in midair in the room. "Well Elsa's done." Anna walked out and walked to Elsa's room but stopped when she heard Idun's voice down the hall. "How about we go see Elsa first." Anna turned around and walked to her room with Sunshine and Snowflake.

"Hi Anna." Elsa waved at her from the bed, "I win so that means I get all of your chocolate."

Anna sighed, "Fine but first can we play with our pets, they've been kind of lonely." Anna gave Elsa her puppy face.

"Alright and no I didn't give in to your puppy face, I gave into theirs."

"Whatever, let's go." Elsa, Anna, Ruby and Sunshine walked to the throne room, opening the doors they saw Snowflake and Agdar playing. Agdar looked up when Sunshine and Ruby ran to him.

"Hi Elsa, hi Anna." Agdar greeted.

"Hey Papa." Elsa said.

"Hi Papa." Anna said. Anna and Elsa took Ruby and Sunshine over to the thrones to play with them. No one noticed when Idun walked in with a box of chocolates in her hand.

"Anna." Idun walked up to them.

"H-hey Mama." Anna said nervously.

"Well I did say that I'll reward you and here you go." Idun handed Anna the box of chocolates.

"Reward her? Reward her for what?" Elsa cut in.

"For cleaning her room." Anna silently stood up and backed a good distance away from them.

"Cleaning her room, I did that."

"Huh? But your father told me that you went to a meeting." Idun and Elsa looked at Agdar.

"Anna told me that so don't go assuming it was me." Agdar said as he shook his head.

Elsa turned her head to the door and saw Anna tip toeing away, she coated the floor with ice and as soon as Anna tried to run, she got nowhere. Anna looked behind her and saw Elsa and Idun walking towards.

"Hah! Can't catch me!" Anna ran as fast as she can but when she realized she was going nowhere, "Oh crud." She lost her footing and landed on the floor, just enough time for Elsa to pin her down on the floor.

"You tricked me! Why you little…-"Mischievous Princess? I know. Can you pick me up or unfreeze the floor or do both?" Elsa sighed unfroze the floor and helped Anna up and made her a large size stand for her to stand on.

"What's this?" Anna asked as she stood on it.

"Something but I'm not done." Elsa made a clear ice globe around her and made a few holes in it so that Anna could breathe.

"Elsa I'm serious, what are you doing." Anna glared at Elsa.

"I'm serious too, something." Elsa tilted her head, still thinking what to do.

"Needs snow and some snowmen." Idun whispered to Elsa. Elsa created the snow and the snowmen and stood back and watched her work of art but she wasn't finish, Elsa made a few snowflakes that were suspended in the air.

Anna took a long glimpse at everything Elsa made, her eyed went wide as she realized what Elsa did. Elsa put her in a giant snow globe.

"Elsa take me out of here right now." Anna shouted.

"Nope that's for tricking me and losing my snow globe, if you just told me about the snow globe, this wouldn't've been so bad." Elsa smirked.

Agdar, Idun and Elsa laughed at Anna as she sat down in the snow.

"You look sooo adorable." Elsa giggled. Anna huffed, getting another 'aww' from Elsa.

"Mama, thanks for the chocolate." Elsa smiled.

"No worries." Idun laughed.

"When can I come out?" Anna interrupted.

"About…in the next four hours." Idun said.

"But that will be around dinner time." Anna whined.

"Well get comfy." Idun said as Elsa coated the floor in snow.

"Well while she's waiting, why don't we all build a snowman?" Agdar and Idun nodded and they got started on building a snowman, Ruby, Snowflake and Sunshine helping them. And Anna? Well she started building miniature snowmen in the globe until they were called for dinner.

Shout out to MantaI-305Apollo'sChariot for giving me this idea.

MantaI-305Apollo'sChariot: I just thinking if Elsa was learning how to swim, wouldn't she freeze the water...just a thought. :D